Technical community will work on development and support of OpenStack open source cloud platform and aims increase in China’s contribution to OpenStack global community.
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Top Open Source Cloud Headlines, Week of Aug. 6
Open source cloud headlines this week feature the announcement of board elections for the OpenStack Foundation; Red Hat’s new branding as an open cloud company; eBay’s new open source cloud application testing platform; Intel’s prescription for developing open standards in the cloud; and a high-profile departure from VMware’s open source Cloud Foundry.
OpenStack Foundation Picks Up Steam, Will Put Board in Place
OStatic
The OpenStack Foundation will hold its first board election later this month. See the full list of board candidates on the OpenStack website.
Red Hat: Open cloud requires open APIs and stacks
ZDNet
Red Hat is pushing its Deltacloud API as an open source tool for building hybrid enterprise clouds that interface with Amazon’s EC2.
eBay Builds Virtualized Test Network With Nicira, OpenStack
CRN
The commercial giant has built a cloud testing platform based on OpenStack, Nicira and Quantum.
Intel’s Imad Sousou: Open Cloud Standards will Emerge With More Collaboration
Linux.com
In this Q&A the director of Intel’s Open Source Technology Center defines the open cloud and discusses how developers can lead the way toward open standards in the cloud.
Cloud Foundry Evangelist Escapes VMware’s Gravity
Wired
Another high-profile departure from VMware’s open source cloud building platform.
Ouya Open Gaming Platform Sails Past Original Funding Goals
The open source Ouya gaming platform, billed as “a new kind of video game console,” has hit another milestone, and this one is a funding milestone. Last night, the Los Angeles-based project, which had set a goal of getting $950,000 of total funding on crowdsourced funding site Kickstarter, blew past its original goal with a whopping $8.6 million in contributions. What’s more the project now has an official website at Ouya.tv. And, at the site, you can pre-order the open, Android-based console for $109, which includes shipping.
The team at Ouya is expecting to ship the first consoles in the first quarter of next year. As we covered this week, the Ouya team has provided an enthusiastic summary of its new partners:
“We just added game streaming through OnLive! Final Fantasy will be on OUYA…and we have an exclusive game! And VEVO has agreed to put their music videos on OUYA, XBMC adds a streaming media app, with TuneIn and iHeartRadio adding music!”
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Could Android Find Success on the Desktop?
Is Google preparing to do what it was rumored to do for so long, namely bring the Android mobile OS to the desktop? Today’s Android user on a smartphone may scoff at the idea but there are signs that Google might have the desktop in its sights, and it’s also clear that Chrome OS has not been the revolution on laptops or desktops that Google had hoped it woud be. Here are some of the rumblings about the possibility of Android on the desktop.
The Eye on Linux blog is wondering whether Google has desktop aspirations with Android:
“There are millions and millions of people using Android on their smartphones, and even some that are using it on tablets. What would happen if there was a version of Android released for the desktop?”
The Eye on Linux post takes note of a very interesting post from Steven Vaughan-Nichols on the possibility of desktop and multi-user support for Android, where he writes:
“Google is bringing multi-user support to Android and it’s far enough along that they’re no longer working on just the background processes, they’re also well into the user-interface design. The only real questions now are when and how will Google introduce it…what I really wonder if Google will decide to finally offer an Android desktop offering of its own. In particular, I wonder if Google will at long last combine its Chrome OS, which is just the Chrome browser running on a thin-layer of Linux, with Android for a new desktop operating system.”
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